The opening tale is a nice snippet of a day in the life of an MTF gone terrible wrong. The rest of the story however didn't do a lot for me.

The biggest problem I had was that I didn't end up caring much about any of the characters other than the soldiers in the opening scenes (who at least have a dire situation and some characterizations to make them empathetic), and the situation is not interesting enough or well enough described to hold my attention on its own. The situation doesn't make a lot of sense, dropping WMDs to take out a single strike force? Attacking a nominally friendly power? This really needs an ironclad reason behind it for the later parts of the tale to work.

I also felt that the explanation of the event took away from the sense of confusion and things falling apart that permeated the first part, which ended up lessening the overall emotional impact of the series.

I would probably upvote the first tale segment, neutral vote the second and down vote the third.